Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: request to post the following about fire elements in cohousing developments

[Diane (dianeclaire]

At Cambridge Cohousing we have a wood burning fireplace in the common
livingroom and several of the units have wood burning fireplaces.  No ill
effects as far as I know

Diane Margolis

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 1:51 PM, JOAN OLECK <joanoleck [at] optimum.net> wrote:

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> Dear Cohousers:
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> I'm part of a cohousing community, Village Hill, being developed in
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> Northampton, MA. We're doing some research on fire elements, as one of our
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> community members, is seriously allergic to wood particulates. So I'm
> hoping
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> you might post this on your blog for us to gather input from other
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> communities. Our questions include:
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> Do other communities allow wood stoves? In both individual units AND the
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> common house or just one or the other?
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> If so, have individuals in these communities suffered any ill effects?
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> If woodstoves are not allowed, are stoves with eco friendly fuels (pellets)
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> allowed as an alternate?
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> What about back-up heat in general (should the electricity go out/the solar
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> panels fail, etc.)? Are communities putting in generators with propane, or
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> backing off from that too, as a fossil fuel?
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> Please email me privately, at: joanoleck [at] optimum.net
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> We'll be very, very grateful from any guidance other communities offer.
>
> Thanks so much! -- Joan Oleck, (based in Brooklyn, NY, for now)
> my email: joanoleck [at] optimum.net
>
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Diane Margolis
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